If someone dies at a property, is the death a material latent defect that must be disclosed in writing to all other parties before entering…

Posted May 17, 2018 by Mike Mangan

Licensees often ask whether a death at a property must be disclosed by the seller, be it death by murder…

Two major disclosure duties govern every listing REALTOR®. Common law requires the Realtor to disclose any known latent defect…

Posted May 26, 2016 by Mike Mangan

There have been a number of recent articles on a seller’s obligation to make full and complete disclosure of all issues respecting property offered for sale…

For properties built before 1957, the presence of an underground oil storage tank (UST) poses significant environmental and financial risk to buyers and sellers…

It’s trite law that a seller and a listing REALTOR® have a duty to disclose known material latent defects, but not patent defects…

An Ontario real estate salesperson learned more than he ever expected or wanted to about the Loggerhead Shrike (eastern population), “a songbird that hunted like a small hawk.”

The owners of a house, which was old when they bought it in 1979, sold it in 1994 to buyers who discovered after completion that the kitchen floor sloped 2.5 to five centimetres from one side to the other…

A Supreme Court judge concluded the following advertisement by a representative for the sale of a lot implied a warranty that the buyer could commence construction of a house without unusual expense or building…

Full disclosure and view property take on entirely different meanings when a nude beach is involved. Some buyers might think a nude beach next to their lakefront property is an asset…

What do gas stations with underground tanks, sawmills, pulp mills, paint manufacturing shops, dry-cleaners, shipyards, truck parking yards for moving or fuel companies, junkyards, farms and…

Termites, latent defect, non-disclosure, breach of duty, fraudulent misrepresentation, and all occurring in Toronto. A young couple purchased a home in an area of termite…

We import more than fruit, vegetables, movies and the Beach Boys from California; now we may be importing their law…

One conclusion to be drawn from a recent decision of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia is that a search of title or the purchase of a $3.00 State of Title Certificate would have avoided an…